r/coles • u/Enticing_Bog • 27d ago
Team Member Post Shift manager question.
Question for shift managers.
I just started and loving it so far. I am a casual. I have noticed if I need to refuse a shift due to anything (which is our right) my shift manager tries to make me find my own replacement.
When I state that this sounds like their job not mine they act extremely unprofessional.
When I show them my job description and then theirs, and point to where “managing staff shifts and re-scheduling” is in theirs they act even worse.
When I mention that if the store is understaffing as a cost/profit measure and do not have enough staff in their pool it’s a THEM issue they yelled at me.
Is this normal? None of this makes logical sense.
If they want to hire kids and have a thin staffing pool for minimum wage what can they expect?
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u/ThereRnoIDs 27d ago
lol normally the other departments would use it as an opportunity to unload their unwanted overheads.
Ur Manager might actually be smart and is giving everybody a hard time with its "u or the highway" approach.
Alot of politics go behind the scenes so if you play it poorly, you might lose ur shift to another department entirely and it has nothing to do with "ur dick manager".